Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262208AbUFBMPW (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Jun 2004 08:15:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262065AbUFBMPW (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Jun 2004 08:15:22 -0400 Received: from 81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk ([81.2.122.30]:6016 "EHLO 81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262476AbUFBMPM (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Jun 2004 08:15:12 -0400 Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2004 13:22:31 +0100 From: John Bradford Message-Id: <200406021222.i52CMViE000156@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk> To: Con Kolivas , FabF Cc: Bernd Eckenfels , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <200406022142.52854.kernel@kolivas.org> References: <1086154721.2275.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> <200406022142.52854.kernel@kolivas.org> Subject: Re: why swap at all? Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 619 Lines: 15 Quote from Con Kolivas : > Does this explain in coarse examples to the desktop users why ideal systems > shouldn't be swap disabled or swappiness=0 ? Yes, except in the case where you are processing a small, (relative to physical RAM), dataset, and not even touching all physical RAM. (I admit, this isn't really typical desktop usage, though). John. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/